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Bobby Allyn

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Bobby Allyn

    How an 'AI freeze' could make big AI companies bigger and hurt smaller firms (opens the original)

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    As Silicon Valley executives call for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence, a growing chorus of critics has coalesced around a counterargument: halting the advance of AI will consolidate the power of leading tech companies and kneecap their upstart rivals. The debate comes as concerns mount in Washington about autonomous AI agents escaping human control and hacking into private companies, just as current and former employees of AI labs issue dire warnings about the dangers of

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Bobby Allyn

    From DOGE to space lasers, Alex Gibney peels back the many layers of Elon Musk (opens the original)

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    Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard remembers having dinner with Elon Musk in the early 2000s, when the billionaire became a key investor in the fledgling electric car company. Musk uttered words that Eberhard would never forget: "One thing that nobody can take away from you is that you're the founder of Tesla." It left a real mark on Eberhard's mind, since Musk would later take unconditional credit for Tesla's runaway success and anoint himself its sole founder, setting off litigation and an event

  3. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Bobby Allyn

    Elon Musk threatens to sue over Gibney documentary's "space lasers" claim (opens the original)

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    Updated September 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM EDT Elon Musk has in recent days been targeting his ire at filmmaker Alex Gibney, whose forthcoming documentary, Musk, offers a scathing look at the tech mogul's rise. Now, a lawyer for Musk is threatening to file a defamation lawsuit ahead of the film's release next month. In a letter sent to Gibney's Jigsaw Productions, the company behind the film, Musk attorney Alex Spiro homes in on an exchange between Gibney and Ashley St. Clair, a former MAGA influence

  4. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Bobby Allyn

    Covering the wild world of prediction markets (opens the original)

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    This week, the popular prediction market known as Kalshi did something it had never done before. It banned a trader permanently for insider trading. Specifically, Kalshi banned former Congressman George Santos for life and fined him more than $70,000 after he engaged in insider trading on the site. That came as no shock to NPR tech correspondent Bobby Allyn. Earlier this year, Bobby broke the story that Santos was under investigation by the Justice Department for manipulating the market about wh

  5. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Bobby Allyn

    New Jersey asks Supreme Court to resolve fight over Kalshi's future (opens the original)

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    The multibillion-dollar battle over the future of prediction markets has reached the Supreme Court. New Jersey on Wednesday asked the high court to weigh in on a legal battle that has pitted dozens of states against the prediction market sector, which is strongly backed by the Trump administration. At issue is who exactly should regulate sports betting on the prediction market platform Kalshi: federal commodities regulators, as the company insists, or state gambling authorities? While prediction

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